Orange receives five proposals for solar landfill project

My Turn: Denied by Medicare Advantage? The odds say appeal

If you had a nine in ten chance of winning something, wouldn’t you would go for it? Those are odds worth taking. What if it was not only something you wanted, but something you needed, like medically necessary services in a skilled nursing facility? This is the situation many older adults and people with disabilities find […]

My Turn: Get out of my head!

Sometimes I feel like a character in a story I had no part in writing. Everyone around me seems to be inside the same story. To get necessities, I go to a store or shop online with my plastic money. It is recorded, like everyone’s money, as digits in a machine so ever-present it seems […]

Celebrating 'the bigwig on the block': Thelma Ramona James honored as Colrain's oldest resident

Colrain residents and officials gathered to celebrate 99-year-old Thelma Ramona James with a proclamation and a Boston Post cane award recognizing her as the town's oldest citizen.

Shutesbury officials seek to restructure Lake Wyola advisory panel

SHUTESBURY — Town Administrator Hayley Bolton is asking the Select Board to restructure the Lake Wyola Advisory Committee in response to concern that the panel may not be properly constituted under state law. Three to five of the committee’s 11 total seats are currently reserved for people appointed by the Lake Wyola Association, a private […]

Montague Police Logs: June 8 to June 21, 2026

Monday, June 8 12:18 p.m. — Report of a crash involving a Franklin Regional Transit Authority (FRTA) bus and a passenger vehicle at Avenue A and Third Street. No injuries reported. 7:25 p.m. — Caller on Montague City Road states someone cut down the apple tree she had in her yard. States it occurred sometime […]